I hate my job

Accounting Recruiter

Job Description

Telemarketing 80%, Face to face sales 5%, Interviewing 15%.
Day runs from 7:45 to 6:30, your role is to find clients (think yellowpages) doing some cold calls, get vacancies, find candidates using online and print media, interview these people, and put the right people forward to the client. Courage to make calls and expectation management are the hardest parts of the role. If you can do these, the interviewing/assesment side is a piece of cake.

Pros

Good pay, recruiters get paid about $80-100k, and 60% is salary which makes life a bit easier than commission only. Very social environment, and very engaging. If you are good, you build excellent relationships with clients based on your excellent past work which is nice.

Cons

You become very sales driven as you are pressured to report to management at least twice per week on jobs. I found myself saying things I did not believe - spewing all sorts of lies about jobs to get things across the line. When you take it too far, you lose "candidate control," they won't speak to you, and you are screwed.

Company Size

1000-10,000 employees

Pay Range

$80,001-$90,000

Years in Job

Education

Bachelor Degree

City

Perth

State

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-04-03 02:04.

Waitress

Job Description

Did not fill in.

Pros

1) You can get tipped on your customer service and if tipped in cash, you don't need to pay extra taxes on it.

2) Flexible hours. Flexible, i mean depends on what restaurant you work for and their operation hours. Usually you don't work more than 6 hours shifts, but depends on how many waiters and waitresses are on staff.

3) You get to eat lots of food at half the price from your restaurant.

4) Working out on the job. Carrying plates gives you great arm strength.

Cons

1) With bad days comes bad customers. Your customer service skills will be pushed to the limit at times. Learn to breath and kickboxing is a good outlet!

2) You're paid Minimum wage.

3) You'll get sick of the food eventually and you'll have to get creative when you order something from the cooks cause you know what they REALLY do back there.

Company Size

0-25 employees

Pay Range

$0-$20,000

Years in Job

Education

None.

City

Palo Alto

State

Submitted by jobpodge on Sun, 2007-01-14 23:26.

Admin & Account Executive

Accounting/Auditing | I hate my job

Job Description

Admin
Full set account.
HR.

Pros

Can learn lot things and involvement of management decision making. have a fundamental picture of how biz is going.

Cons

Too general, no any specility. too many small thing to concern and solve like statinonery... like a housewife.

Company Size

0-25 employees

Pay Range

$20,001-$30,000

Years in Job

Education

Degree in BA

City

Singapore

State

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-01-11 03:06.

Call Centre Operative

Customer Service/Call Center | I hate my job

Job Description

Sitting there with a headset on while customer questions and complaints (usually complaints) regarding sharedealing came flooding in without respite. I must stress that my role didn't involve sales so I wasn't working on commission, merely as a customer service advisor - so I would simply pick up a basic wage with no discernable benefits.

The one thing that I have learned is that you have to be a certain kind of person to be able to glean any amount of enjoyment from working in a call centre. A minority of my colleagues seemed to enjoy their role for some reason, but I seriously question their sanity.

Many people use call centre work as a stepping stone in their career, and attempt to quickly gain experience so that they can move elsewhere and try to earn more money; thus you will find that there is often a rapid staff turnover and efforts by management to retain staff are lacklustre as everyone is easily replaceable. This was certainly the case where I worked, and there were no real benefits to working there other than getting paid as there was nothing to aspire to; and because of this staff morale was almost non-existent.

In summary, if repeating the same thing to angry people over and over again and being an undervalued, mindless automaton sounds good to you then this may be the kind of job that you are looking for. However if you have any kind of intelligence or self worth, I would only recommend considering doing this kind of work as a last resort.

Pros

You get paid

Very occasionally you may be able to help a caller rather than just fob them off with excuses

You often work a shorter day than regular office staff

Cons

Poor pay

You are normally thrown straight into the job with very little training

Highly stressful and hectic environment

Company policy may often mean that although you know exactly how to help the customer, you may be prevented from actually doing so because you have a 30 second time limit to do it in

Little scope for promotion

Gets repetitive very quickly

Giving a customer incorrect advice or even speaking to them in a tone that they don\'t appreciate may get you into a lot of trouble

You will often be monitored at random and have management watching your every move, sometimes even having to ask for permission to go to the toilet

Potential neck and ear damage in the long-term

You will often be dealing with complete idiots, and sometimes working alongside them too Customers will often be aggressive, and in extreme cases may even threaten to have you killed

Company Size

10,000 or greater employees

Pay Range

$0-$20,000

Years in Job

Education

very little needed

City

United Kingdom

State

Submitted by jobpodge on Fri, 2007-01-05 23:46.

Waitress

Restaurant and Food Services | I hate my job

Job Description

Did not fill in.

Pros

1) You can get tipped on your customer service and if tipped in cash, you don't need to pay extra taxes on it.

3) You get to eat lots of food at half the price from your restaurant.

4) Working out on the job. Carrying plates gives you great arm strength.

Cons

1) With bad days comes bad customers. Your customer service skills will be pushed to the limit at times. Learn to breath and kickboxing is a good outlet!

2) You're paid Minimum wage.

3) You'll get sick of the food eventually and you'll have to get creative when you order something from the cooks cause you know what they REALLY do back there.

Company Size

0-25 employees

Pay Range

$0-$20,000

Years in Job

Education

None

City

Palo Alto

State

Submitted by jobpodge on Fri, 2007-01-05 00:26.